Table 1.
Counts of participants (and bouba-first trials) per language and language family, ordered alphabetically by language name within family and genus (based on [93]); Italics-faced languages marked by * dominantly use scripts without Roman letters.
| family | genus | language | n of participants (n of bouba-first trials) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indo-European | Albanian | Albanian | 10 (6) |
| Armenian | Armenian* | 22 (13) | |
| Germanic | Danish | 18 (10) | |
| English | 41 (16) | ||
| German | 87 (45) | ||
| Swedish | 21 (13) | ||
| Greek | Greek | 40 (19) | |
| Iranian | Farsi* | 22 (13) | |
| Romance | French | 57 (25) | |
| Italian | 54 (33) | ||
| Portuguese | 59 (30) | ||
| Romanian | 33 (16) | ||
| Spanish | 35 (21) | ||
| Slavic | Polish | 52 (26) | |
| Russian* | 49 (25) | ||
| Japanese | Japanese | Japanese* | 55 (35) |
| Kartvelian | Kartvelian | Georgian* | 14 (8) |
| Korean | Korean | Korean* | 22 (13) |
| Atlantic-Congo | Bantu | Zulu | 20 (10) |
| Sino-Tibetan | Chinese | Mandarin Chinese* | 49 (23) |
| Tai-Kadai | Kam-Tai | Thai* | 20 (8) |
| Turkic | Turkic | Turkish | 38 (18) |
| Uralic | Finnic | Estonian | 46 (27) |
| Finnish | 19 (11) | ||
| Ugric | Hungarian | 35 (19) |